Great news everyone!!! We got to go to walmart on Tuesday! What a glorious day that was. We started the day off right with a nice americanish breakfast of pancakes!!! The viejos left that morning so there were only about 40 missionaries here. That night was pretty much the worst night of sleep I have ever experienced because the girls in our room had to leave for their missions at 3 in the morning. So basically they just stayed up all night and then around 2am Hermano debon started yelling luggage! luggage! luggage! in Spanish so that was awesome. The world was set right though when we got to breakfast and had pancakes. I dont know why but we seriously have some sort of egg concoction for breakfast almost every day. No me gusta. Anyways, before Walmart we went to the stake center and played an awesome game of kickball. I was a captain and basically picked an allstar team because we dominated. Not that we kept score...but we dominated haha. That was really fun. Then we got to go to walmart and everyone stocked up on their favorite candy and snacks to last us the last two weeks. Im Pretty sure the elders filled an entire cart. one elder spent over 700 quetzals. Insane. Hermana Fitzgerald and I got a nice stash of chocolate and nutella haha tpical. After wallyworld we went to the mall and ate in the food court. The taco bell here is legit everyone.
When we came back from our adventure "a fuera" we got to go to the temple, which is always the best. I am going to miss it! We might get to go once or twice in our mission though since part of the east mission includes the city.
On Wednesday morning we got a BIG new group of Norte Missionaries. We now have more nortes here than hispanos. Its crazy and awesome. There has been a lot of construction going on here so every day they turn the water off randomly and we have no water in the bathrooms. The only bathrooms we can use are out at the gym so there ends up being a long line haha. It has been a fun adventure. That night though some of the workers were working on the bathroom...we had a great suprise. We got into bed late because the hermanas were all just getting back from meetings and they still needed to unpack some things and so around 10;45 the 4 latina hermanas were kneeling by the door praying together in a circle. Us nortes were all just laying in bed when we heard a really loud rushing sound like the fire hydrant was on outside or something. I looked over the side of my bed to say something to my companion when the hermanas started screaming. Water started rushing in our room under the door!! I jumped down from my bed and went to grab bags and things that were on the floor and its a good thing too because we ended up with an inch of water in our room all the way back to the window. And our room is pretty big. Our room is right by the bathroom so we got the most water. It went almost all the way down the hall on our floor though and out the side door down the stairs. It was crazy. We all got brooms and mops and dust pans and swept all the water into the bathrooms in like 20 minutes. It was crazy and really funny. One of the hermanas in my district was super smart and when she saw the water coming she put a blanket down in front of the crack in her door so they didnt get any water in their room. Friday morning I woke up and grabbed my towel to go take a shower and had a nice suprise when i slipped in a new lake of water in our room haha. Luckily I caught my balance before i ended up sopping wet. We still have no Idea what happened with that one because our room was the only one with water in it.
In the new picture you can see two of the girls from my district. They girl in the bright red dress next to me is hermana hutchins and above us is a girl with red hair that is medina. Then down my row in the middle is hermana fitzgerald. She should be right in the middle, not the hispana one haha.
Last week we were talking about family and my teacher told us that her brothers names are josé, jóse, and josue...hahaha we all have a good laugh about it now and then and whenever we ask hispanas what their siblings names are or some of the teachers what their names are we always guess those names and then Melgar is like hey! Are joo making fun of mi family? it is the greatest.
Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays are our favorite days because Sundays are just filled with great devotionals and talks and meetings (besides the hunger games in sacrament meeting and district class). Then mondays we get a new shipment of ice cream (sad how our excitment centers around food these days). then Tuesdays are pdays and we get to email. Anyways I hope everyone is doing great and soaking up the summer sun! This might be the last email for two weeks since we are heading out to the mission field next Tuesday! Its crazy! I feel like I have been here forever but that I just got here at the same time!
I love you all!
Hermana Bender
foto grupo 24 julio CCM Guatemala:
When we came back from our adventure "a fuera" we got to go to the temple, which is always the best. I am going to miss it! We might get to go once or twice in our mission though since part of the east mission includes the city.
On Wednesday morning we got a BIG new group of Norte Missionaries. We now have more nortes here than hispanos. Its crazy and awesome. There has been a lot of construction going on here so every day they turn the water off randomly and we have no water in the bathrooms. The only bathrooms we can use are out at the gym so there ends up being a long line haha. It has been a fun adventure. That night though some of the workers were working on the bathroom...we had a great suprise. We got into bed late because the hermanas were all just getting back from meetings and they still needed to unpack some things and so around 10;45 the 4 latina hermanas were kneeling by the door praying together in a circle. Us nortes were all just laying in bed when we heard a really loud rushing sound like the fire hydrant was on outside or something. I looked over the side of my bed to say something to my companion when the hermanas started screaming. Water started rushing in our room under the door!! I jumped down from my bed and went to grab bags and things that were on the floor and its a good thing too because we ended up with an inch of water in our room all the way back to the window. And our room is pretty big. Our room is right by the bathroom so we got the most water. It went almost all the way down the hall on our floor though and out the side door down the stairs. It was crazy. We all got brooms and mops and dust pans and swept all the water into the bathrooms in like 20 minutes. It was crazy and really funny. One of the hermanas in my district was super smart and when she saw the water coming she put a blanket down in front of the crack in her door so they didnt get any water in their room. Friday morning I woke up and grabbed my towel to go take a shower and had a nice suprise when i slipped in a new lake of water in our room haha. Luckily I caught my balance before i ended up sopping wet. We still have no Idea what happened with that one because our room was the only one with water in it.
In the new picture you can see two of the girls from my district. They girl in the bright red dress next to me is hermana hutchins and above us is a girl with red hair that is medina. Then down my row in the middle is hermana fitzgerald. She should be right in the middle, not the hispana one haha.
Last week we were talking about family and my teacher told us that her brothers names are josé, jóse, and josue...hahaha we all have a good laugh about it now and then and whenever we ask hispanas what their siblings names are or some of the teachers what their names are we always guess those names and then Melgar is like hey! Are joo making fun of mi family? it is the greatest.
Sundays Mondays and Tuesdays are our favorite days because Sundays are just filled with great devotionals and talks and meetings (besides the hunger games in sacrament meeting and district class). Then mondays we get a new shipment of ice cream (sad how our excitment centers around food these days). then Tuesdays are pdays and we get to email. Anyways I hope everyone is doing great and soaking up the summer sun! This might be the last email for two weeks since we are heading out to the mission field next Tuesday! Its crazy! I feel like I have been here forever but that I just got here at the same time!
I love you all!
Hermana Bender
foto grupo 24 julio CCM Guatemala:
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